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...Latin-American arena last week the U.S. fist smashed full into the Axis face. The sparring for the goods and good will of a continent was over. A Roosevelt proclamation made it total economic war. Some 1,800 firms and individuals in business from Rio Grande to Cape Horn were publicly declared to be Axis-owned or Axis-aiding, put on a blacklist. From now on none of these firms can receive U.S. goods. All their assets and credits in the U.S. are frozen...
...noticing, the other screaming and recklessly banging his head against a table, but a jury swiftly found them guilty of first-degree murder. Still their exhibition was not over. On the way to Sing Sing last week one of them attacked the driver of their car with his unmanacled fist, and at the door of the prison they put on this show. They were locked up in the empty women's wing of the death house so that they could not disturb other men about...
Last week 50 Senators and Representatives, led by Senator Taft, publicly organized a bloc pledged to "unalterable opposition" to U.S. convoys "by whatever name they may be called." In the Senate, when Pennsylvania's Guffey spoke for convoys, Senator Tobey answered him, shaking his fist in the direction of the White House: "Mr. Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, Mr. President, Mr. Chief Executive . . . keep your hands off the Congress of the United States!" Senator George, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he was opposed to convoys. An Associated Press poll of the Senate showed...
...Brien asked why, one of the soft-snarling men stuck a revolver against her apron. Mrs. O'Brien put her hand in her apron pocket where she kept her key ring -and a crucifix. She clutched the crucifix and uttered a silent, urgent prayer. Then she swung her fist to the gunman...
Labor's history is not exactly a bed of roses. Most unions have had to win better wages and shorter hours by the mailed fist rather than the oily word. Yet occasionally a union organizes effectively enough, and the employer is intelligent enough, to avoid the exercise of collective strength. When that happens, union members ought to shake their apron-strings in glee. It's happening all right, but some of the workers are responding rather perversely...